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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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2. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






3. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






4. Open syllable






5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






6. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






7. Academic Language Therapy Association






8. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






9. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






10. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






11. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






12. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






13. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






14. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






15. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






16. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






17. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






18. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






19. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






20. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






21. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






22. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






23. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






24. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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25. Wide Range Achievement Test






26. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






27. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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28. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






29. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






30. Multisensory Structured Language






31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






32. Feeling through fingertips






33. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






34. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






35. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






36. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






37. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






38. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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39. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






40. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






41. English as a second language






42. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






43. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






44. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






45. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






46. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






47. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






48. Closed syllable






49. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






50. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile







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